Ransomware
Ransomware Cyber Attack on Mecklenburg County!
Around 30 servers at Mecklenburg County, North Carolina were held hostage by hackers spreading Ransomware on Tuesday evening, forcing the authorities to go back to old school paper processes. Sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders say that the hackers are demanding $23,000 worth of bitcoins to provide re-access to the files and the payment have to […]
StorageCrypt Ransomware infects NAS Devices!
A new ransomware named StorageCrypt is on the prowl and is said to be infecting Networked Attached Storage (NAS) devices such as the Western Digital My Cloud. Victims have been reporting that the files stored on their NAS devices have been encrypted and a ransom note demands anything between 0.4 to 2 BTC to reverse […]
LifeOmic offers $1 million Ransomware Cyber Attack Guarantee
Indianapolis based Technology Company LifeOmic has announced first of its kind $1 million guarantees to the healthcare information technology industry against cyber attacks and ransomware breaches. The company is said to offer the said amount as a guarantee for the data stored on its platform by healthcare providers against all variants of cyber threats. LifeOmic […]
Cyber Crooks use Necurs Botnet to spread Scarab Ransomware
Security Researchers from Forcepoint have discovered that cyber crooks are now spreading Scarab ransomware through Necurs Botnet. The researchers added in their statement that more than 12.5 million emails were circulated in this email phishing campaign to inboxes holding .com and co.uk domain addresses. NOTE 1- Necurs is a malware distributing botnet nexus which has […]
NHS to spend £20 million to raise its defense against Cyber Attacks
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is all set to spend £20 million on a Central cybersecurity unit that will use the funds in hiring ethical hackers to probe for vulnerabilities in the healthcare’s IT Infrastructure. As the National Audit Office has concluded last month that the WannaCry attack could have been prevented by basic IT […]
Trend Micro discovers ransomware which encrypts only Word Documents
Researchers from Trend Micro have discovered a new ransomware which encrypts only word documents and propagates itself to new word files which are being opened through the same office suite on the same computer.But the good news is that the said malware is, still under development and has not made any victims till date. Security […]
Sacramento Transit website hit by Ransomware Cyber Attack!
Last weekend, the Sacramento Regional Transit District website was targeted with Ransomware disrupting the schedules of bus and light rail passengers. The authorities immediately apologized for the inconvenience caused to the transit users via Twitter and said that no personal data was compromised in the attack. However, Wendy Williams, a spokesperson from the Transit department […]
Global Ransomware damage costs predicted to exceed $11.5 billion by 2019!
The costs incurred from global ransomware damage are predicted to exceed $11.5 million annually by 2019. And this forecast was given by Washington based firm Cybersecurity Ventures, which researches and reports on cybercrime costs, the market size of cybersecurity market and its spending forecasts. In the official 2017 Ransomware Report, announced early this week by […]
North Korea uses Fall Chill malware to cyber attack US Government!
The Government of United States has issued a public statement saying that “FallChill” malware is being used by North Korea to cyber attack critical infrastructure of United States. The statement is actually meant to be an alert jointly issued by FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In June this year, DHS already issued a […]
Ordinypt malware targeting Germany companies is a wiper disguised as ransomware
Researchers from G data Security have found evidence that a new variant of ransomware called Ordinypt was found targeting German companies via email phishing. They also came to a conclusion that the said malware was actually a wiper disguised as ransomware. Karsten Hahn, a senior researcher at G Data claims that the ransomware was targeting […]
